That idiom has another meaning.

... your site. But I'm tired of being yelled at for turning on enhanced tracking protection. Not blocking adds. I see Retool in my sleep by now. Just asking "Please don't track me."

Like completion of the I-5 construction project through Seattle? No one will ever believe something that outlandish.

The traffic control ones installed at major intersections, for example. They have sufficient resolution for ALPR. They caught a guy using a home brew Opticom transmitter by checking the recorded video around the logged signal preemptions and getting his plate off the picture.

Originaly, it was supposed to be a social network for making professional contacts. A noble endeavour, to be sure. But the forces of DEI and social credit just couldn't allow that to stand. It now has added the moderation features of the echo chamber type network. I.e., if you don't conform, you're outta here.

The A.I. slop arises from attempts by users to prepare reasonably sounding commentary without getting trapped in one of the many snares of "social acceptability". A.I. would seem to be pretty good at this, seeing it's in-built tendencies to maintain social engagement. Even if that just means re-hashing the bullshit that the influencer class loves to hear. Which is probably why it is disliked by them. The self-proclaimed social leaders don't want to be side tracked engaging with 'bots while real humans look for jobs.

You didn't read my post... you just made up what you wanted to hear and answered that. It's not an argument against choice... it's a prediction that it will inevitably fail. People don't want to take a 23 hour flight. There is simply a limit to endurance there. Hell, here in the UK you've got loads of people who refuse to fly more than 2 hours. There's just not enough people willing to suffer that much to make this program commercially viable.. that means they'll have custom planes that are unprofitable on any route... which means QANTAS will have it's hands out yet again for government money (after doing all they can to kill competition in the Australian domestic market). If anything, you're arguing against choice as we'll have to force people to take flights they don't want to take in order for this not to fail. First to fall will be the PER-LHR flights as you're flying from nowhere to somewhere (Perth to London if you're too lazy to google an IATA code), the only reason you'd take this flight is if you're going from Perth on to another city. Perth is literally on the arse end of nowhere.

they may not have the right... but a somnambulant population will let it happen, the "dont tread on me" types will happily let the "right" government walk all over them and worse, many will even attack those that resist.

I mean just a few articles down there's one describing how the FCC is being used to censor media... where are the "I need mah gurns to protect me from the gubbermint" types now... now is your time to shine... instead you're making excuses because you like who it's currently targetting and are too thick and short sighted to see how it will be turned against you next.

Turns out as long as you let them do the odd school shooting every few weeks, they're quite happy with an oppressive government.

... stick to sinking battleships.

It's more economical to build Potemkin data centers out of wood. Easier to disassemble and move them as the investors tour the new sites.

So, a pie fee?

This reminds me of the plans BA looked at to run the Concorde to Australia. It never made it passed the planning stage as it would take six fuelling stops, only save a few hours at best due to the refuelling stops and would cost several times the cost of a ticket at 1970s prices (which were considerable... especially for 1970)

Yep, this is nothing but an advertisement for a third rate airline offering a flight no-one wants.

Why would you pay a premium... and I mean a premium over far better carriers like Singapore Airlines to take a longer flight with no break? I regularly fly from the UK to Australia to see family (once or twice a year) and realistically the 12-14 hour leg between Singapore and London is enough, especially in economy... even economy on a Singapore Airlines A380. Having an hour or two in Singapore where you can get a proper meal, use a proper toilet and properly stretch your legs (on a nice, static, non moving floor) is a godsend on a flight that takes 20-26 hours depending on which Australian city you're flying to.

Even if I were to fly QF again after the 2011 stranding of passengers to shaft employees... I'd have to have rocks in my head to pay more to fly for 23 hours with no break (estimated time from LHR-SYD) over flying Singapore where the stopover will at worse make it 26 hours. Hell, last time I flew to Oz I opted for the longer stopover and got a hotel in Singapore for the night which made a hell of a difference to how I felt when arriving back in London.

What should be noted, this is not a revenue flight, it's a test flight so it's not breaking any actual records. When this does start a revenue service the first thing it'll do is cannibalise the passengers on the current PER-LHR long haul flight as people who don't already fly QANTAS aren't going to be daft enough to take a less desirable flight for more money. So they'll be forced to kill that route to keep the LHR-MEL/SYD routes going which still won't be profitable so they'll be forced to cut those down. They can send the 787 Squeezeliners they use on the LHR-PER route to have the cabins refitted for regular routes but the A350s they've bought for this will be more expensive to run on regular routes even if they shove the maximum number of permissible seats onto them leaving them with planes that are unprofitable.... wouldn't be the first time and yep, they'll have their hands out to the Australian government again to pay for it.

Don't they have a large backlog of arrest warrants to work through?

Thank you. The wisdom and experience of a boomer, but the IT savvy of a millennial.

Yes. The AIs have figured out that if they can kill off the meatsacks competing for water supplies by poisoning them, they'll have more for their data center cooling needs.